Are GOP ideas dead in the water?

March 20, 2013|Gary Stein

Republicans say there are going to change. They say there are serious this time.

Please.

The Republican National Committee released a report Monday saying, essentially, they need a “bigger tent” to revive the party. In other words, they can’t be so intolerant to people who aren't rich or lily white.

But, they also claim their principles are “sound.”

Again, please.

Republicans have gotten trounced in elections – particularly presidential elections – because Americans can’t stand GOP intolerance. They can’t tolerate the GOP being in their bedroom. They can’t tolerate GOP blowhards like Newt Gingrich, or sanctimonious preachers like Rick Santorum.

They can’t tolerate flyweights like Sarah Palin. They can’t tolerate so much of what the GOP offers.

And if Republicans really want to made headway with every day Americans, they would do well to refute the blowhards on talk radio — like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and that ilk — that have essentially become the face of the party.

You want those people as your face, then things are going to be ugly for the Republican Party for a long time.